Word 2019 For Dummies

Chapter 4

Text Editing

IN THIS CHAPTER

Deleting characters

Deleting lines, sentences, and more

Splitting and joining paragraphs

Understanding hard and soft returns

Undoing your mistakes

Using the Redo (Undo-Undo) command

Writing is about creating text. Part of the process also includes reviewing and editing your words. My advice is to concentrate first on writing. In fact, one of the reasons budding writers get stuck is that they spend more time editing than writing.

To accommodate your text-editing desires, Word comes with a host of commands to chop, slice, stitch, and otherwise decimate your text. The commands are a necessary part of word processing, and they work best when you have oodles of text to edit. So, again, write first and edit second.

Remove Text You Don’t Want

Credit the guy who put the eraser on the end of the pencil: It’s a given that human beings make mistakes. The ...